COMERCIAL XMAS

For some years, in this capitalist society buying presents and gifts has become very important. This aspect increase when it's Christmas.

We are living in a society that prefers a very expensive present than a little thing but with meaning. We make more important the material things than the emotional ones, and that is a big problem. In my point of view, we have to care about the things that really have a meaning. Christmas is an event where you see your family and your friends.It's an event where you feel more happy, there are no reason to be happy but you are, call it magic.
Maybe it's not like on the films, that when is Xmas all the people becomes nice and there are nothing bad in the world. But we can't complain about our life.  

STEREOTYPES

Nowadays, our society is getting stereotypes of prettiness. We live in a consumer society and material world and there is a lack of values, so we think that having a good appearance is an important thing. We have to be skinny, wear brand clothes... and finally, that kind of obsession can lead to mental illnesses. This is extremely bad because you're playing with your health, it's not a joke. 

Because of that, I think that we need to say STOP. Every person is a world, every person is original on them way, and it's that what make us persons. A lot of people are fighting to follow the society stereotypes, so they are fighting to be the same way, like a photocopy, and it's horrible. If you have the luck of being different, don't lose that.

THE JOKE

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THE SPECTACLES

This article is from NY times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/12/technology/10-second-videos-from-your-sunglasses-thank-snapchat.html?contentCollection=weekendreads&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=c-column-middle-span-region&region=c-column-middle-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-middle-span-region&_r=0

The articles talks about one new gadget of Snapchat. Snapchat is an app where you can send photos to your friends but in 10 seconds this photos disappear. This gadget is a sunglass. But it’s not a normal sunglass but a recording one. On the top of sunglass you can see two little cameras, and these ones are connected to Snapchat. So whatever you record is automatically hang out on the app. However, the problem of this gadget is that you can’t buy that on a normal shop. The personal of Snapchat, put some tents in wherever they want without advice, so if you are there fine, but if you are not you can’t buy it. The company announced that only we will now the new places of those stores for a future online map.  Finally the article said that one problem of this gadget is that it can be dangerous for your privacy. But then, the company said that when the glasses are recording there are one light on it.

I think that this gadget is awesome because you can record those memories without have to have your phone in your hands.

WORDS

Sidestep: Click here to know the meaning.

Hired: Click here to know the meaning.

Embedded: Click here to know the meaning.

HACKERS

This article is from NY times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/12/technology/why-is-facebook-saying-im-dead.html?contentCollection=weekendreads&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=c-column-middle-span-region&region=c-column-middle-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-middle-span-region&_r=0

This article talks about a rare case that happens on Facebook. One day when Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of Facebook, opens his app he found that he has a memorial of him on his page. So then he check the counts of his friends if they saw him dead too.  Later he realized that he wasn’t the unique person who had this problem. So that fact became viral and a lot of people had this problem and comment on twitter about that. Finally they discovered that they had been hacked.

In my opinion that was a funny joke. I mean, they had been hacked but this kind of hacks not hurt anyone. And it’s rare that Mark Zuckerberg could be hacked. But also is a serious thing but it makes you conscious that hackers can do whatever they want with our accounts and our private profiles too.

WORDS

Spokeswoman: Click here to know the meaning.
Chief: Click here to know the meaning.
Whipping: Click here to know the meaning. 

 

BEST SUMMER EVER

Last summer was the best of my life for different reasons. It was the first time that I have worked. Before summer I was very worried about that, because I thought that it would be like go to school, that it would be a routine. But I was never more wrong. I worked on Tropic Beach; it is a small open air restaurant near the beach of Sant Pere Pescador. In this job I make new good friends and we made good stories together. It’s true that there were a lot of people and sometimes you didn’t stop in hours, but I really like be a waitress. I started to work at 10 a.m., and it was awesome because when I was working I could see all this awesome views of the beach. Also I loved work at night because the environment of Tropic Beach was better; there were more people of my age. And every Monday we had a musician there. We met a lot of people from Netherland, Germany even France.

Other reason was that my best friend was working in the camping next to Tropic Beach, so every day I saw her. Also we went for first time to Fata, one disco from Sant Pere Pescador. And it was amazing because the people who I met on my job usually went there and my workmates too.

Besides sometimes I went to the beach to play volleyball with one of my teammates.

This summer I really disconnect from all and I was very relaxed. 

HUMOR?

Does humor play an important role in life? I think that this question is interesting. To be honest in my opinion humor is important in our lifes for different reasons:

Firstly, nowadays we live in a world full of problems, such as, pollution,wars,... and making fun of that can help us to deal with them.

Secondly, in a personal way, if you make fun of your problems, you would live better. Because sometimes if we take all our problems seriosly, the problem becomes worse. Also I think that if you laugh at your problems nobody can use them to hurt you.

To sum up, I think that you have to laugh and make fun of everything you can , your life is better when you're laughing.

GLOBALISATION

Today, I want to talk about the problem of the globalisation. I know that globalisation is good for a lot of things, for example the food, now you can go to the town and buy some sushi, but it's native to Japan. Also is a good thing because you can talk with people around the world about everything because more less we have enough culture to do it. So I agree with the globalisation produce a lot of benefits but also it have damages. And one of that damages is the lost of some traditions.

In Catalonia, for example, we celebrate Halloween, a tradition from U.S.A. I love it, because every year I meet with my friends and celebrate it and it's awesome. But here in Catalonia we have a tradition. On 1 of November, we have to go the cemetery to see our dead persons, but -including me- I don't know any person from my age that do it. So I agree that we can celebrate other traditions like Halloween, Santa Claus, Black Friday, but why in the process of globalisation we forget our typical traditions? 

The people don't want to grow up to go to La Patum for example, but they want to go to Tomorowland in Belgica.

 So, yes I think that celebrate the typical traditions from another country is awesome, but forget our traditions is a wrong action, and we have to stop that change before that traditions disappear. Because any tradition is better than other. All traditions are unique and awesome, like "Cagar el tio" or "Els Reis mags" traditions from Catalonia. 

WIFE CARRYING COMPETITION

This article is from News in levels:

http://www.newsinlevels.com/products/wife-carrying-competition-level-3/

This article talks about one competition that had place in New England on 13rd of October. This competition consists on doing a steeplechase while the husbands were carrying their wifes. It was the 17^th annual competition and forty-four couples participate in. The best time was under one minute.  The prize was eleven cases of beer and five times the wife’s weight in cash.

I think that this competition is very original, because it’s one way of doing sport funnily. When I grow up and will get married I would like to participate in it.

WORDS

Hurdle: A thing over which you must jump.

Course: A route.

Healthy: A large amount.

GRIT

Last day in English class we saw a speech of Angela Lee, about the grit of learning and make things happen, of fight for what you want and the passion and perseverance.

In my opinion I think that she is right, of course that there are people more smarter than other ones, but if you fight for things that you want with perseverance and passion you can do more than ones that are more smart but more lazy. And I don’t think that grit can be teach or learnt, I think that grit depends on the personality of everyone, it’s not matter of education but it can helps too.